Episode 480: The Myth of the Religious Right with Randall Balmer
The Holy Post
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I Love the Summons to Explain Dispensationalism
In the book of revelation, chapter 18, there's a reference to something called the millennium. evangelicals believed that jesus was going to return after the millennial kingdom had been established. But they began to look around themselves and said, wait a minute,. We thought we were building thismmillennial kingdom, but yo, look at the tenements on the lower side of manhattan. Look at the influx of all these non protestant immigrants who don't share our scruples about temperance. And so they cast about for a new biblical motbiblical interpretation. They imported one from britains, essentially in the person of a man named john nelson darby. He
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